Asia: Silent Guns, Wary Combatants

In the green and gold chamber of the U.N.'s
Security Council, the eyes of the diplomats flicked back and forth from
the clock on the north wall to the impassioned face of Pakistan's
Foreign Minister Zulfikar AH Bhutto. Before him lay the answer to
everyone's question: Would it be wider war or tempo rary peace for
South Asia? Bhutto waited until the last possible moment before
answering.

At one minute before 3 a.m.  the deadline  he interrupted a
scorching, anti-Indian diatribe, plucked from the stack of papers
before him a...